Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-05 22:18 (UTC-0400):
> Everything is ok until I load a program of any size, pan, kmail,
> thunderbird, worker file manager. Worker immediately freezes up
> debian. This was not true at 1024x768.
Using which DE or WM? Konsole, Worker & MC are all running fine here @1440x900
on
a 1680x1050 display, though without any RAM shared by the GPU. On all old
limited
resource systems like this I automatically ease up the load by disabling
compositing, as well as using a lightweight DE:
# free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1542280 146580 903320 1296 492380 1206724
Swap: 192744 0 192744
# inxi -GSayz
System:
Kernel: 5.10.0-13-686 arch: i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1
parameters: ro root=LABEL=<filter>
Desktop: Trinity info: kicker wm: Twin v: 3.0 vt: 7 dm: TDM
Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] driver: nouveau v: kernel ports:
active: VGA-1 empty: DVI-I-1,TV-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0322
class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: nouveau
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa alternate: nv gpu: nouveau display-ID: :0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1440x900 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 380x238mm (14.96x9.37")
s-diag: 448mm (17.65")
Monitor-1: VGA-1 model: Lenovo L2251x Wide serial: <filter> built: 2011
res: 1440x900 dpi: 77 gamma: 1.2 size: 474x296mm (18.66x11.65")
diag: 559mm (22") ratio: 16:10 modes: max: 1680x1050 min: 720x400
OpenGL: renderer: NV34 v: 1.5 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes
# xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1440 x 900, maximum 4096 x 4096
VGA-1 connected primary 1440x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
474mm x 296mm
1680x1050 59.97 + 74.89
1280x1024 75.02 60.02
1440x900 74.98 59.89*
1152x864 75.00
1024x768 75.03 70.07 60.00
800x600 72.19 75.00 60.32
640x480 75.00 72.81 66.67 59.94
720x400 70.08
DVI-I-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
TV-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/70-extensions.conf
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection
The mozilla.org build of Firefox ESR52 and of SeaMonkey 2.49.5 run too:
# free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1542280 592224 136556 19900 813500 719904
Swap: 192744 2840 189904
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